Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Shirts off progress + de

gidday team, still been beard deep in empire at the
mo, got a few shoddy pics for yall! hooray! hopefully will get some
better ones once its all done and together. for now tho;

as you can see in the background, just working on the walter and cane em at
the mo. still got 10 more archers, 3 wizards and a priest, 3 pegs also. but the bulk of the army is all done! actually quite enjoyed painting it all, for once. so much so that i painted the demis in a week. and pretty stoked with how the lot of it came out too, she be popping once the basing got done, much to my
surprise.

had a few games lately too, trying to
get up to speed with the lizo with a swedish comp score 16 list for
cancon practice. but before we get to that, lets talk dark elves!a little behind the 8 ball on this one,
already lots of comprehensive de write ups on the net. regardless,
heres my 2 cents, and new list!so whats changed? heaps! pts drops here
and there, although increases in core. some of the new stuff is ace,
some of it naff. some good items, some stink ones. sounds like any 8th
book really lol.

there are definately some big winners
here; l4 taking all lores is def no 1 in my book. awesome. and yeah, the
new dark magic is pretty handy too. then theres the 4+as fast cav, the
fact ANY unit (apart from shades & driders i think) can take a magic
banner means youll be seeing a unit of flaming xbows a lot. black guard
got the unit cap dropped, but well upped in price, making a horde w/t
fc and ap banner over 500 pts. bolt throwers are special, 70 pts, and
you can take 4 - which i now have MUAHAHAHA! - as are harpies now too,
although they got a price upping too. then theres the rare, literally
bursting with options. one thing everyone will take tho, are warlocks.
they are mint. fair amount of s4 poison attacks, not to mention the 4++
and built in doombolts and soulblights. and fast cav. good times.

a few omissions there too, you might
notice. we're gonna see more hydras on ebay than on battlefields now,
not too much changed apart from the price, and the new version of regen.
which sucks. if you can do 5 wounds on a t5 hydra witha 4+ as in
combat, it dont get back up no mo' pa. no regen sucks. shame, now that
they're special. might have some value in a monster mash list, but we'll
see how it all pans out in a few months, once someones run one lol. just cos you can make a double kit, doesnt mean you should. although the kraken variant would make a hilarious character assassin.theres also some contentious entries
too. namely, the new cauldron. a definate nerfing of the previous
version - aiint nothing free in 8th ed, it only gives a ward to whoever its
sitting in -and unless youre a witch elf its not that great, and +1 attack is a bound spell. like many others, i was like
'witch elf horde+cauldron ftw!' but on second look, i dont know if
thats how i want to roll. there are inherent weaknessess of a frenzied t3
horde, esp if its taking ld tests at -3.plus the reduced frontage, plus having
your t3 bsb with a 5++ and thats it.. etc etc. i will wait and see how
it goes, but its no cauldron for me at the mo

so whats in the list mang? whats
tickling your mancy? well my first list is based on what i already have.
and its a deathstar. and im sorry.L4 on life, ring, scroll (cant remember
if i have a scroll too, not sure, think thats too much arcane) II -
life + elves = awesome. who cares about t3 5+as elves, when they can be
t5/7 with regen? LOL. the ring is lovely too, not too much more than an
mr3 item, plus the double 1 miscast that people gonna forget

master, bsb, peg, cloak, 1+as, lance - a
1+ in every list. the cloak rules. i had to make my master a bsb cos i
wasnt running a cauldron, not ideal, but we'll run with it, see how it
goes

assassin, dark venom, sword of
antiheroes, the other tricksters shard - suddenly, assassins can take
any ol magic items up to 50 pts. cue broken combos. and also, the
poisons seem to stack on top of magic weapons. mines in the mix to try
and kb dudes. simple. id fancy him going toe to toe with a blender lord.
less so a dprince, but thats what bolt throwers are for

core is 2x11 xbows, one with flaming banner - pretty self explanatory, you gotta have core. flaming xbows!then we also have 3x5 driders, with the lot. spears, bows, shields, tiny hats. are they the new best fast cav? probably

4 rbts - if you got it, flaunt it. right?2x5 harpies - a chaffy staple31 executioners, fc - the new black.
expect to see a lot of these dudes about. for the pts, they are a very
very good deal. then combo that with life magic, and we are
deathstar-ing

2x5 warlocks - another +1 in every new
de army. dual purpose fast cav/wizards, means you can be casting spells
of use from t1. and dont get me started on the double soulblight
potential. sploosh.

the hard part was not adding more
wizards! would love a l2 on dark, but 2x warlocks and a l4 on life means
im casting useful stuff from t1-6, regardless of my opponent. now to
wait until they release executioners and warlocks!best part of the book imo is when i went to work on monday and emailed all the nerds about their de lists, everyone had a fairly different one. variety! although, like any book, no doubt we'll all be seeing more of a few certain things lol havent had a game with em yet, so
needless to say i cant wait. have been playing a bit tho, but with the
lizo. got a pretty solid lizo list for a comp 16, but still not sold on
it, especially now ive done the unthinkable and written a 15 pt woc
list! more on that later. but heres a brief run down of some of the
latest gaming;

first up against our newest member to
the shirts off family, johannes and his woodies. another comp 16 list,
with dual treeman! fire the lasers!

well i definately tried, but couldnt
get anything better than a s4 shot against em. kept them away tho lol.
despite some of the worst to wound rolls ive ever seen, johannes did
manage to snatch up both my cold one heroes, but i did get a laser
through the treekin, killing 2 and a half, and then mopping up the unit late
game with 5 cold ones in the flank.

another battle in this game of note was
a laserdon whiffing for most the game vs a unit of wild riders. turns
out the laserdon wins! thanks to a 2+ as and johannes crappy to wound
dice. ended up being a minor victory for the lizo

next was vs james' he.

to put it
simply, i played like a chump, and got beaten like one. enough said. i felt bad for wasting james' time. sorry bud. woc now, i promise!

last game was vs von daemonovskis new
fatties.

it was all going ok as i chaffed him up on a blood and glory game, and he started closer

until he overran past my oldblood, put a maw through my
saurus and despite me wildforming and charging with the remains, it wasnt enough to deal with his minigutstar.

definate highlight was the
cold one old blood with a 1+ rerollable nearly killing a stonehorn solo,
then getting rear charged by his guts and holding for two rounds,
making jammy jammy saves. lol.

didnt help tho, and i get a tablingso back to the drawing board, decided
ill suck up the comp hit and take a harder and more familar woc list
instead. go with what you know, you know? so more batreps with the woc
soon.

and finally, today at work i received a
box of avatars of war corrupters + a metal exalted. now while it did take 3 months to
arrive from spain, i was abso-lutely gobsmacked with the quality and
detail of the models.

the limited photos of them simply do not do them
justice ay, so putrid and disgusting, is going to save me a LOT of
sculpting time as they're already pretty thoroughly nurgley. cant wait
to get them together and painted. and the icing on top of this wonderful
nurgle cake is the bases:

molded in such a way as to easily accomodate a rare earth magnet, without any effort other than gluing it on. faaaaaaarking nice one dudes.so thats all for now, should have that
empire all painted by the next time you hear from me, other than that,
stay tuned for more, roll some dice, and take your shirt off

2 comments:

Nice work Bro! Will be hard to let that Empire stuff go. Thats a nice Exe deathstar, but I would back my WE with cauldron to eat them up :) Unless it specifically says in the DE book (dont have it in front of me), poisons don't work with a magic weapon.